Venture Capital

A reader asked me the other day if – in the words of Charlie Munger – I have a “mental model” for investing in early stage companies. I do, but [...]

Jason sent me a quote that was on the first slide of a 409A presentation from one of the major law firms we work with. “409A is the tax law [...]

The rumors about someone buying JBoss have been bouncing around for weeks. As I was working on a presentation titled Commercializing Open Source for Eric von Hippel’s Democratizing Innovat

Check Point and Sourcefire announced the cancellation of their deal on Thursday. This was a very nice deal for Sourcefire and its investors, as Check Point was paying $225 million [...]

This week has already been active for new startups in Colorado. On Monday, the news broke that my friends Don Springer and Tim Wolters had closed on a $2.6 million [...]

Yesterday, I wrote a high level summary of this year’s Venture Capital in the Rockies conference. I thought I’d give the local press one more day to see if anyone [...]

I received the following question last week. It’s a good one – very chewy – and my answer is given from my frame of reference (e.g. a managing partner in [...]

For the last 23 years, the Venture Capital in the Rockies conference has been the signature fund-raising conference in the Rocky Mountain region. A full day of presentations from companies

Jeff Bussgang – a GP at IDG Ventures in Boston – has a good post up on the dynamics – from both an entrepreneurs perspective and a VC perspective – [...]

The following question appeared in my inbox the other day.  “As you mention in this blog VCs never sign NDAs. Maybe you can also tell me why actually not? If [...]